Chaos_Sinner777
Imprisoned Soul Seeking Isekai
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For me a genuine Unique Skill should be something that arises from a person's own hopes, dreams, desires, personal traits, or even sheer force of will. As I have put it a couple times in my stories, a unique power born from an individual's soul. Such a thing should be technically "Unique". Even if someone else gains a unique skill with the same name and Similar abilities, there should still be differences that wouldn't normally be present in typical skills. Like differences of functionality or strength. And most importantly, Unique Skills, bend the rules of reality, nature, the world's system, or even the very Gods themselves. A Unique Skill should make you special in one specific small way. For instance "Astral Immortality" would make your soul indestructible, and even the gods cannot typically change that fact. Only a person with a Soul Destruction unique, or a god with a soul related domain, could oppose the invulnerability of the soul. In the case of Soul Destruction, the skills would be set directly against each other, and the wielder with the stronger will would be the one who's skill takes priority. As for a god with a relevant Domain, they'd win. After all a Domain is basically a Divine Unique Skill.
As for the Unique Skills granted by gods or the like, there are a few ways to do it. They could be "Artificial" and thus technically inferior to natural ones in some not clearly quantified way. Like, if two people have Gluttony, the one who has it naturally would almost always win in a head to head contest, even if the artificial one has better sounding sub effects. Back to the gods, maybe they could alter the person slightly to adapt them to their skills. Or, perhaps, the very act of choosing a specific Unique Skill could form the core of desire needed for the skill to truly belong to them. Or perhaps a person already has some potential for a specific unique and the god simply awakens that.
I also like the idea that stolen unique skills would be more suited to the original owner than the taker, and maybe even count as artificial too, but. . . There should be ways for a person to truly make artificial unique skills their own. Using the skill a ton, combining it with another unique to make something new, some external catalyst like Ambrosia(The food of the gods in Greek Myth), getting normal skills in some way similar to the unique you're trying to master and practicing until you master those then applying what you learn with the normal skills to the unique, maybe even trying to change your own intent to match the skill in some way. There could be plenty of other ways to do it, and the rules could change from world to world if you use more than one reality, but the point is Unique Skills can be awesome. This has been a relatively short rant based on what I was thinking about at work most of the day, thanks for reading, and I hope it makes you think~
As for the Unique Skills granted by gods or the like, there are a few ways to do it. They could be "Artificial" and thus technically inferior to natural ones in some not clearly quantified way. Like, if two people have Gluttony, the one who has it naturally would almost always win in a head to head contest, even if the artificial one has better sounding sub effects. Back to the gods, maybe they could alter the person slightly to adapt them to their skills. Or, perhaps, the very act of choosing a specific Unique Skill could form the core of desire needed for the skill to truly belong to them. Or perhaps a person already has some potential for a specific unique and the god simply awakens that.
I also like the idea that stolen unique skills would be more suited to the original owner than the taker, and maybe even count as artificial too, but. . . There should be ways for a person to truly make artificial unique skills their own. Using the skill a ton, combining it with another unique to make something new, some external catalyst like Ambrosia(The food of the gods in Greek Myth), getting normal skills in some way similar to the unique you're trying to master and practicing until you master those then applying what you learn with the normal skills to the unique, maybe even trying to change your own intent to match the skill in some way. There could be plenty of other ways to do it, and the rules could change from world to world if you use more than one reality, but the point is Unique Skills can be awesome. This has been a relatively short rant based on what I was thinking about at work most of the day, thanks for reading, and I hope it makes you think~